WorldCom Layoffs

It is hoping to emerge from Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection as soon as April.

The job cuts are part of two and a-half billion dollars incosts to be eliminated -- and the first since new chairman andC-E-O Michael Capellas came aboard.

WorldCom, which is losing about 200 (m) million a month, hasalready been trying to cut costs by asking the bankruptcy court tolet it vacate some leases and renegotiate or get out of somesupplier contracts.

WorldCom has about 60-thousand employees after cutting nearly21-thousand positions last year. That followed the largest-everbankruptcy filing in U-S history amid a massive accounting scandal.

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